Since many others here have some sort of website devoted to tea, from
basic to elaborate, I figured - being the computer geek I am - that I
should at least make a showing. So I created "teasphere" at
http://teasphere.wordpress.com/ I'm not really digging Wordpress at all
(very inflexible), so most likely I will end up hosting it myself and
the URL will change... but I did do a quick job of trying to chronicle
my tea journey on the "About Me" page and in the off-chance anyone
cares, it's there.

- Dominic

Hi Dominic:
You always have good information here, so I will read there too. Could
not log in there so here's
a comment about that flavored tea. I didn't like the one I had because
it was artificially flavored.

Can just adding a drop of vanilla and some pomegranate juice to the
Ceylon tea work?

I can't try this now as I'm out of black tea.
Melissa

beginningway@yahoo.com wrote:

USENET is good enough for me. I consider this group the Congressional
Record of Tea. It has no meaning if said elsewhere unless reviewed
here. I wouldn't participate if DejaVu or Google didn't care to
archive what I had to say on the subject or anybody else. BLOGGING is
essentially a solitary activity even with the media support. My Beta
camera failed, my VHSC camera failed, my MEDIA computer failed.
Otherwise I would put up some video on a TUBING site for the MTV
generation.

Jim

Good for you!
BTW, I first had Monk's Blend at Far Leaves in Berkeley. $10.00 (4 oz
tin) - very nice. Chado and many others carry it loose, as well.
I like it on a cool, foggy, Bay Area morning with milk and a bit of
sugar (scandalous!).
Shen
Dominic T. wrote:

Space Cowboy wrote:

Flint and tinder work too, so toss out that stove. I'm not sure why you
have a burr lodged somewhere, but you very often have humor and insight
to share... and instead stick to derisive and esoteric comments much of
the time. I guess every group needs a couple of those to keep them
honest, but I just don't get it.

Usenet is great for a lot of things, but posting photo's or just
posting a silly or off-topic post doesn't always fit. It's the wrong
tool for some jobs, and I'm not a "I have a hammer, so every problem...

Shen wrote:

Great! Thanks for the new leads, I'll be ordering some as long as
they'll ship it. I found it strange that not all "Monk's Blend" is
vanilla and grenadine though, I've found many places are very different
flavorings which makes it tough to find the right thing. It's funny you
mention the weather because yesterday it was a cool, rainy, foggy
morning here in PA and that was what I turned to as well. (Minus the
milk/sugar, I wasn't ready to be wrapped up in that scandal too since I
was already *enjoying* a teabag :) It has a hypnotic effect on me, I've
always heard vanilla is a scent that has a good deal of power of males
and it does... in fact there is a perfume called "Hypnotic Poison" that
cuts right through me instantly that is very similar to the scent of
the tea.

Hey Dominic,

Good to hear! Your teasphere is already on my favorites. However,
leaving comments on your blog is a royal pain. I have to sign up with
Wordpress, but Wordpress doesn't want to take any hotmail address to
sign up. It says:

"You cannot use that email address to signup. We are having problems
with them blocking some of our email. Please use another email
provider."

So I can't leave a comment (not saying that you need my comment or
anything :) Perhaps you can set it up so that people don't need to
sign up for an account with Wordpress to leave a comment, much like
Tess' Teadonism and Nikhil's The Simple Leaf blogs? My 2 cents.

Anyway, I'll be following your musings here and there!

Phyll

I mentioned the Karate Kid sequel and the Tea Ceremony here in 98 if
that means anything. I still think it worth viewing. You can find it
with Google.

Jim

Dominic T. wrote:

Phyll wrote:

Done and done, I've changed it to allow anonymous comments. (I only
left it the other way to minimize spam, but had no idea it was such a
PITA) I'm less than enthused at Wordpress actually in the entire
execution and as someone who designs CMS's (Content Management Systems)
for websites I have a feeling I will be creating something custom
tailored to my needs and moving it at some point to one of my own
servers... but for now that issue should be fixed. Thanks for the
input.

- Dominic